How to format Adobe Flash RTMP URLs

Originally Published on 10/31/2014 | Updated on 03/06/2017 4:39 pm PST

Many Flash-based players (FLVPlayback component being one) use a single RTMP URL to connect to the Wowza media server and to play a particular stream. In reality, this URL has two parts: server connection URL and stream name. The expanded format of this URL, assuming the stream is located at the path [path1]/[path2]/[streamName] takes the form:

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